Maudsley Charity Grants

The Maudsley Charity are currently inviting applications to two grants: Community and Connection Grants and an Epilepsy Research Grant.

Community and Connection Grants

The Maudsley Charity is pleased to announce a call for expressions of interest in this new scheme.

The purpose of these grants is that they should make a positive contribution to the lives of those people who experience mental illness. The scheme will have a particular focus on funding projects working with and for people who are, or have been severely unwell and/or experience additional disadvantage.

Specifically, proposals must relate to one of the following:

supporting people through transitions into, out of or between services

promoting positive engagement (or re-engagement) with statutory and non-statutory services or with informal networks in order to support people to maintain or improve their mental and/or physical health

Projects must primarily benefit people within the boroughs served by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM).

Applications will be open to SLaM and Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations working in the local area. We encourage projects that include an element of cooperative or partnership working between VCS and NHS services.

The maximum amount available for each project will not exceed £25,000.

The duration of projects will normally be under two years.

Process

Please email the Head of Grants, david.blazey@maudsleycharity.org, with a brief paragraph outlining your project idea, details of the group you will be working with and supporting, and the outcomes the project is intended to achieve as soon as possible, but no later than 18 April. We will then explore your idea with you, and if your proposal meets our criteria, in the week beginning 22 April we will invite you to submit a full application, to be received by 28 May.

All applications will be made online. If you are invited to apply we will provide an opportunity for you to be guided through our grants management system by a member of our team.

Eligibility Checklist

Before you contact us with your project outline, please ensure that you can satisfy the following conditions:

Essential

You work for SLaM or a VCS organisation currently active in south London

The proposed activity will take place in one or more of the boroughs covered by SLaM services

The proposed project addresses issues relating to transition to, from or between statutory services, and/or engagement with services or informal networks of support

Your request is for less than £25,000.

The project duration is not more than two years.

The project will actively involve people with lived experience in its design and/or its delivery

Desirable

If you are from a VCS organisation, there is an element of partnership or collaborative working with SLaM or that you have the endorsement of SLaM clinical teams for your work.

Epilepsy Research Grant

The Maudsley Charity is pleased to announce a call for expressions of interest for this new Epilepsy Research Fund.

This grant, made possible by a generous legacy donation, in intended to support research in the field of Epilepsy.

The Charity is keen to allocate the fund as single bid. We welcome applications from teams and collaborations working in neurology and/or neuropsychiatry.

Criteria and requirements:

Projects must demonstrate that they will, through research, advance understanding and evidence related to Epilepsy.

Applications will be open to researchers with a primary base in any of the following: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at KCL, King’s College Hospital (KCH) or some combination of these institutions.

We are keen to support collaborations across neuroscience and mental health but will also be open to bids which do not reflect such collaboration.

The maximum amount available for the project will not exceed £210,000.

We will look favourably on studies which complement existing funding and infrastructures such as BRC (Biomedical Research Centre) and CLAHRC.

If proposed research extends or overlaps with an existing study, applicants must demonstrate that the funding will substantially extend the potential impact of the research or extend the research into new and distinct areas.

Animal studies will not be considered.

Bids may include capital costs eg for relevant equipment or software. Submitted budgets must include required overhead costs.

2. We will then invite you to submit a full application, to be received by 12th of July 2019. We will provide an opportunity for you to be guided through our grants management system by a member of our team.

3. A panel which will include Maudsley Charity trustees and independent expert reviewers will assess applications and identify a shortlist to be considered at a panel meeting during October 2019 (applicants will be required to attend).

4. The panel will make a recommendation to the board of the Maudsley Charity for agreement on 26th November 2019. The successful applicant may be required to attend this meeting.

5. Final decision will be shared in December 2019.

6. The Charity will then agree a payment and reporting schedule with the successful team. The first tranche of funding can be released from January 2020.

In our 2018/19 grants round we were proud to fund the following projects

Maudsley Simulation is a national award-winning service, part of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. The project delivers high quality mental health simulation training to a wide range of professionals.

Over 5,000 multi-disciplinary staff have completed courses in the last few years and yet scaling this immersive experiential learning remains a challenge.

A grant from Maudsley Charity will enable Maudsley Simulation to partner with Virti, an award-winning, interactive, immersive (virtual and augmented reality) education platform to scale high-quality mental health training products, accessible anywhere in the world and capture objective data on how staff perform under pressure – the first project of this kind anywhere globally.

DISCOVER is a school-based programme for teenagers experiencing depression and anxiety. The project was originally created with funding from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity.

A Maudsley Charity grant will enable the DISCOVER team to develop digital resources to extend the impact of the school-based DISCOVER programme for teenagers with depression and anxiety.

The team will co-create a digital app with teenagers and software developers to complement the existing workshop programme, helping to maintain progress, improve motivation and promote long-term recovery.

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

Funding from the Maudsley Charity will enable the project to implement Individual Placement and Support focusing on both education and employment goals within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust’s early detection for Psychosis services.

The main goal is to reduce social and functional impairment that characterises this client group. This project will also generate a new evidence base and improve service delivery.

The Digi-Inclusion project aims is to address digital and learning exclusion amongst mental health service users in Lambeth. The project aims to support up to 85 people, five of those people will be recruited to help train 80 others, providing opportunity both to train and learn about the digital environment.

Maudsley Charity funding will enable In-depth learning support for individuals and groups to be provided. These groups often find it hard to access main-stream IT training and access to equipment. The project seeks to bridge this gap and empower people with IT skills enabling them to take part in online study, job searching and other vocational opportunities.

Maudsley Charity has provided a grant to Raw Sounds, a community music project for people accessing South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust mental health services, including in-patients.

Co-produced with service users, members take part in AQA accredited group tuition from professional musicians, access support and signposting to relevant services, perform at community events and have opportunity to progress into volunteering roles.

A first episode of psychosis (FEP) admission to hospital can be a traumatic event and the post-discharge phase represents a vulnerable period for relapse and self-harm. Funding from Maudsley Charity has enabled this project to pilot a new psychological intervention for young adults discharged from hospital after their FEP and evaluate outcomes in key domains.

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

Up and Running aims to support self-management and recovery through exercise, among young people in south east London experiencing symptoms of poor mental health.

Funding from Maudsley Charity will enable running and other sports through free, fun and youth accessible sessions led by qualified trainers, promoting sustainability by linking with other local sports projects.

A Maudsley Charity grant is supporting Hear Us, a Croydon based mental health service user run group deliver Open Forums. The sessions bring together service users, carers and staff from statutory and voluntary organisations to talk about issues that affect people with mental health problems and provides vital feedback to monitor and improve services in Croydon.

Funding from Maudsley Charity allows the project to enable everyone in Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth and Croydon, who falls ill with an eating disorder, to begin treatment within the shortest possible timeframe. The project aims to ensure rapid and sustainable recovery.

A Black LGBTQ+ and Portuguese community project, funded by Maudsley Charity, to enable these two communities to tell their stories about their mental well-being experiences via video on their mobile phone.

The videos will be accessible online to the public to share culturally specific knowledge and understanding about recovery, self-management and staying well.

Funding from Maudsley Charity to Loophole Music will support Bethlem Royal Hospital patients to stay well. Through weekly communal music-making sessions, using innovative technology and traditional acoustic instruments.

The project will provide a stimulating and safe space for patients to develop self-expression, team-working and communication skills. The project also aims to create positive self-identities as musicians and members of a group.

A Maudsley Charity grant is supporting the ‘Whatever Makes You Happy’ programme, a free, referral-based drama programme for young people aged 8-14 with, or at risk of developing, mental ill health. Led by specialist tutors and therapists, it offers a supportive space where participants can gain confidence, find effective ways to express themselves and build resilience.

Find out more about Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre: www.glypt.co.uk

Funding from the Maudsley Charity will enable the Dragon Café to encourage holistic, nurturing relationships between mental health professionals and service users. Through creative platforms, facilitated dialogue and workshops at The Dragon Café.

The project enables psychiatric professionals to better understand people who have lived experience of mental ill health, and for service-users to in turn better understand them.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

Approximately a quarter of people presenting to South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust with their first episode of psychosis would not have developed psychosis if they had not used high potency cannabis.

At present there is no specific intervention(s) addressing their cannabis use. Consequently at least one third continue cannabis use with increased relapse rates and hospitalization. Through funding from the Maudsley Charity the project will establish and evaluate a clinic for these patients.

Through Maudsley Charity funding this project aims for a group of staff from South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and their community partners, who are actively involved in promoting and delivering the Tree of Life (TOL) to obtain the TOL Advanced Practitioner Certificate from the project originator Ncazelo Ncube.

Find out more about the Tree of Life project: maudsleycharity.org/projects/tree-of-life-workshops

Anxiety App for Autism
An easily available, evidence-based intervention to reduce anxiety and increase wellbeing in autistic people and providing clinicians with a tool for swifter diagnosis of anxiety

Time and Talents Association

Get Out and About! Community Development for Older People’s Mental Wellbeing
To help older people who have become withdrawn due to depression to increase socialisation and build confidence and resilience as volunteers and community leaders and create a welcoming community network

PsychART

PsychART 2017: Celebrating Creativity in Medicine
The PsychART 2017 Conference focussed on participatory arts, and their role in recovery. Workshops were led, in part, by service users who have experienced the benefit of such programmes.

Creative Sparkworks

Voice4Health
A film skills training and employment project that will empower young adults with mental health needs to make short films to increase understanding and awareness in the community about mental illness. Integrated in the project will be paid work placements in the film industry to reconnect participants to the wider community.

Kings College London

HERON-RUN
The project aims to give people with mental health problems who have never tried running the opportunity to do so, with the support of a qualified run coach and qualified run leaders

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Self-Monitoring for Self-Management of physical health in people with mental illness
Installation of physical health self-monitoring machines in four SLaM sites to measure weight, height, BMI, percentage body fat, blood pressure and heart rate and provide an instant read out that will be a focus for physical health and lifestyle advice or to ascertain when there is a need for more acute intervention.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, MHOAD CAG and Age Exchange

Reminiscence Journeys
Providing reminiscence training and tools to staff and relatives/friends on two Inpatient services to develop therapeutic reminiscence activity as part of planned care.

Recovery College pilot for young people
A small-scale pilot project to scope the feasibility, efficiency and effectiveness of a training/group work program co-produced by clinicians and service users. It will include groups or courses that are both therapeutic and practical/skills building.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

SLaM CAMHS Digital Hackathon for children and young people
Bringing young people and clinicians together with software developers in a process that will lead to two apps addressing mental health issues being ready to trial amongst young people and/or in services.

Therapeutic Garden
Develop a therapeutic space where young people can have contact with nature in a safe environment, which can engage and soothe the senses and where they can participate in forest-school type activities, facilitated by a community gardener.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

AdArt
Developing a creative space for service users engaged in SLaM addiction services, strengthening collective and individual identities, map creative connections within the community, and maintaining solid connections and creative networks while supporting newcomers in the team of AdArtists.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Southwark Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Neurodevelopmental Service

Autism Skills Parent Training Course
Further development of a group intervention for parents of children with autism displaying challenging behaviour, comprising psychoeducation on autism and training in evidence-based behavioural assessment and intervention.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

The inpatient journey
To co-produce with inpatient staff and service users a graphic illustration and mapping of inpatient care, focusing on ward processes, expectations and experience from arrival on the ward through to discharge.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

ECG Interpretation in Psychiatry Inpatients
A project to trial ECG machines in SLaM which are digitally linked to the cardiology Department in Kings College Hospital, allowing for direct requests for interpretation.